Yasunaga Hasegawa

Yasunaga Hasegawa was a samurai of the Matsushiro Domain of Shinano Province (present-day Nagano Prefecture, Japan) who was affiliated with the Sonnō jōi movement of Tokugawa Shogunate-era Japan.

Biography
Yasunaga Hasegawa was born in Shinano Province, Japan to a family of samurai, and he served the Sanada clan well. He joined the xenophobic Sonnō jōi movement in 1864 after the Emperor issued the "Order to Expel the Barbarians", and he took part in a xenophobic massacre of British civilians in a nearby settlement with the assistance of some Sohei monks.